Jocelyn Bell Burnell Quotes
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While many in the social enterprise space often qualify themselves as 'non-profit,' these organizations should instead treat themselves as 'for-purpose.' These organizations should focus on their mission to create social good, while still treating themselves with the same commitment to rigor and discipline as the best for-profits.
Adam Braun -
Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
P. T. Barnum -
Biggie was a lyrical genius: he was a musical painter with words. As he rapped, you would see the picture come to life as you heard his story. You hear a lot of rappers rap; you hear a lot of singers sing, but you don't see the movie in your head the way you do when you hear Biggie rap.
R. Kelly -
One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.
Zadie Smith -
I used to rely on black-and-white, and while I was working on 'Smile,' I learned to adapt to color on my end.
Raina Telgemeier -
I loved the challenge of being able to take a character who could be thrown away as 'crazy' and making her identifiable to the audience - also, to give her a vulnerability that people would cheer for.
Katee Sackhoff
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If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.
Larry David -
You never walk out of the gym and say, 'I shouldn't have gone.'
Taylor Kitsch -
There was a sadness over me, a melancholy. That's always been a part of me – those are some of the things that lead you to the arts.
Mahershala Ali -
I choose work with the people I like to work with.
Mads Mikkelsen -
Oh, I was working occasionally in and out of New York.
Otis Rush -
When strawberries go begging, and the sleek Blue plums lie open to the blackbird’s beak, We shall live well - we shall live very well.
Elinor Wylie
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The kids today have these fresh faces. It's like they're on pins and needles, waiting to see what I'm going to do. They've never seen me. In the 1960s, those were hippies. They were wired up already. The kids today know me because I've worked with Jeff Tweedy and other young producers.
Mavis Staples -
In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
Francis Bacon -
I have looked up to Emraan Hashmi from day one.
Ali Fazal -
That's the ultimate gratification in any business situation - do customers buy the product? And do they use it and do they come back and buy more of it?
Jim Barksdale -
Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon.
Emile Durkheim -
Some people have everything Other people don't But everything don't mean a thing If it ain't the thing you want
Charles Wright
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Board meetings should not be for the benefit of the board. They should be for the benefit of the CEO and the senior team.
Fred Wilson -
I don't want to do transformations on people for the sake of a visual. I want to do it because it makes sense.
Jonathan Van Ness -
I am an enthusiast, but not a crank in the sense that I have some pet theories as to the proper construction of a flying machine. I wish to avail myself of all that is already known and then, if possible, add my mite to help on the future worker who will attain final success.
Wilbur Wright -
Men who watch, and say little, very often are much wiser than the men they serve.
Susanna Kearsley -
If it wasn't for the stars, we would not be here.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell